A Self-Management Intervention for Mild to Moderate Heart Failure

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases, Heart Failure, Congestive

In brief

This study will test whether a self-management (SM) intervention, compared to usual care, will reduce the risk for adverse clinical outcome in patients with mild to moderate heart failure.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00018005

Run by

Lynda Powell, PhD, MEd

People needed

902

Starts

2001-06-01

Expected to finish

2007-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-10-22

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• NYHA classification of II or III
• LVEF of 40% or less

You may not qualify if…

• Uncertain 12-month prognosis
• Potential cardiac transplant within 1 year of study entry
• Severe aortic stenosis
• Uncontrolled ventricular tachycardia
• Non-cardiac causes of heart failure symptoms (i.e., peripheral vascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and arthritis)
• Major psychiatric co-morbidity
• Unstable angina, myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft, or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty within 1 month prior to study entry

Where it is running

• Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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